Grab your Dockside Extortionist, your Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer, your Seasoned Pyromancer, or any combo piece like Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
This makes tokens that can be sacrificed to exile target nonland permanent
The Grand Strategist ability will buff one of your artifact creatures and provide them with evasion in the form of menace
The card isn't unplayable -- it's okay (but not great) in Mono White Lifegain decks because the options are so bad -- but holy crap the amount of hoops WOTC wants you to jump through for White to have marginal card draw would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad
In development, we decided that we liked the counters slowly building up over time rather than forcing you to invest mana into the card
Most of my dorks that block flying have reach, not flying, and some, like Zetalpa, will survive with indestructible and a huge butt too